Andrea Nove (Novametrics) has a PhD in social statistics, and experience in the production of research reports for organisations including WHO, UNFPA, Save the Children, PMNCH and UNICEF. She has worked in international development since 2011. Uniquely, she was involved in all three global State of the World’s Midwifery (SoWMy) reports (2011, 2014 and 2021), as well as several regional reports: Arab States (2015 and 2021), East and Southern Africa (2017 and 2021), and the Pacific islands (2019). Andrea has also applied the SoWMy method in three individual countries: Mozambique, Myanmar and Nepal. In 2019 she designed and taught a short course in gender-sensitive data collection and analysis on behalf of UN Women and UNODC in several Asian countries. She has led baseline and endline studies for Save the Children projects in Mozambique and Nigeria. She was the technical lead for an evaluation of the gender-responsiveness of adolescent health services in several countries in Asia and the Pacific for UNICEF (2017/8). She was the MEL lead for recent midwifery workforce programs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania, and also for a maternal and newborn health programme in six African countries over five years. Andrea is a native English speaker, with excellent writing and editing skills and an extensive record of relevant publications.